Reverse Engineering

What is Reverse Engineering?


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Dictionary.com defines it as:

The process of analysing an existing

system to identify its components and their interrelationships

and create representations of the system in another form or at

a higher level of abstraction. Reverse engineering is usually

undertaken in order to redesign the system for better

maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without

access to the design from which it was originally produced

Bill Gates reverse engineered the Macintosh 1986 OS to create windows '95. < that is an example of reverse engineering

See engineer, engineering, reverse, steal, antitrust


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